Well aware of what happened at Waco and yes it is a good thing. Their parents are to blame for being stupid enough to hang around such maniacs, not the government for enforcing the law. As I recollect there was a fire lit by the davidians that caused most of the deaths so obviously its them not the govt to blame. Obvious at least to those who are not gun crazed morons.
No, we dont have uncontrolled imigration here, but from what I read the US has huge ammounts of illegal immigrants,on that basis that equation of yours simply doesnt add up!
Well Waco was a good thing, hopefully it taught some stupid gun nuts there are limits. The very thought of someone like you owning a gun is scary! W
We got rid of nearly all guns a few years ago here and it has been a great improvement for our society. Since there has not been one mass killing and gun related murder has reduced considerably.
But I know from expeience that people with your views are intolerant and just dont let facts get in the way of uninformed opinion.
You dont have any idea what you are talking about do you. I have all those benefits here in Australia,the maximum tax rate is 35%. I pay 15% on my current income, of that 1.5% provides health care for everyone.
We have a decent social welfare system too. What libertarians love to ignore is the simple fact is the more support you give the disadvantaged the less crime you have, so the less policing is needed so less taxes. Grown up countries have known this for years.
So you see I am already there, I imagine you had terrible trouble sharing your toys when you were a child.
Funnily enough we dont have uncontrolled migration here, but it seems the US does(Mexico anyone).
If you stop making up "facts" (60-90% had me ROFL), and awaken to the reality that you do not live in a civilised country, though by your post that is probably a bonus for civilised countries.
Sonce when has Australia been part of Europe?
Libertarians are juvenilles who hever grew out of Henlein books.
Still I suppose I should be sympathetic to victims of the education system in the US.
Just a guess but they probably dont automatically support everything Israel does, so in the eyes of some have a horrible record. How dare they believe palestinians should have human rights?
As an overseas observer of US politices have been waiting for the republican dirt campaign to start, and your the number one cheerleader by the looks.
My non partisan (I dont live in the US)take on the available evidence is there is no substance to it, just another smear campaign, in desperation at the fact losing the election is inevitable.
How incredibly typical, you have no idea of life in the civilised world do you? Your only answer is "Have a gun and protect yourself". If you are confronted by someone with more firepower than you, I guess you just let them kill you rather than call the police then? given that you say you owuld just lie down and die.
Ooh yeh, gun ownership is much more important then health care.
The thing about you libertarian types is you are self centred assholes.
Ironic how a counrty that is afraid of joining the International criminal court because of its many illegal acts (What other reason could therer be?), expects to apply their law to the citizens of other countries for offences commited outside their borders.
Firstly, the electricity price rise in SA occoured before 2006-2007. Privitisation has been a disaster in every area of public enterprise in Australia, leading to large price rises and a reduction in service quality. Only a fool would believe otherwise, and surveys reapeatedly show that the general public agrees!
As for your health care claim, you neatly ignore how many people die in waiting rooms in the US for lack of treatment on a regular basis, not to mention the many who cannot afford life saving medication. Seen sicko have you?
Picking one isolated example is not making a case. At least my anecdote was from personal experience, on many times I have used the publice health system over 25 years, sorry but one case from a newspaper hardly counters 25 years of good health service for me.
I note you did not deny your political allegience.
When I was a telephone tech, we released 70 trained techs into the market every year in SA alone, wonder why now there is a skillsshortage-its because profit driven private companies are so incredibly short sighted, and have trained no-one, and now there is a skill shortage precisely because of the private system you so love!This will be a huge problem in upcoming years as the generation trained retires with no-one to replace them.
My idea of service ( And most thoughful peoples) is what we had, prompt good service, REAl people in Australia answering phone enquiries, need I go on? As all the privitised companies charge similar fees your argument is simply specious.
You made no case for any benefit from the privitisation of public utilities, just excuses and generalisations which are simply false.
Regardless of whether there were all those extra services they still used the same copper wire lines that are used now, and this was the case before most of these new services existed.
You realy have no idea what you are talking about on this subject do you? And by the way its anecdote (Not anocdote).
The only winners from privitisation are the shareholdres of the private companies who get a wind fall. Like I said take your head out of your ass and look around you, dont believe reports that are designed to lead to more profits for the rich.
I saw it written aliens had invaded the earth in four different newspaper articles so that must be true by your reasoning! I see no mention of belief, just no suspension of disbelief, a neccesity for those who "believe"in a "god".
Great post, you said it all man! I am sick to death of armchair experts who think they know more than the experts in the climate field, for some reason there is a minority of geeks who push the denial barrow, using selective quoting, irrelevant "facts"and then when that fails, accusing climate scientists of corruption. Morons would be generous.
I am in Australia too and I call bullshit. My electricity bill went up 30% upon privtisation, I frankly have seen NO benefits. I also have had excellent service from public healthcare. Which nbranch of the liberal party do you belong to by the way? Your's is the partisan rant full of disinformation, I laughed out loud at the higher level of service, you muct be joking. When I was a telephone tech in the 70's we repaired 90% of faults within 24 hours, even in the country.under your wonderful privitisation it now takes up to 5 days in the city and 14 days in the country. Explain again these so called improvemnets of service, or take your head out of your behind and have a look around!
How about the surveys that showed 75% of the worlds population didnt believe the US WMD claims? Google it youself if you want the facts. One person was the US head of the inspectors Scott Ritter, do you live in a clue free zone or do you just ignore what you dont like and go LALALA? There were lots of people who did not believe the claims at the time, but they were in civilised countries, you wouldnt understand.
The 2 people I know who have iphones are having the things crash at least once a day, good enough reason for me to stick with my WM smartphone for a long time. As usual, an overpriced, lited usability fashion accesory from apple.
Apple products, the piano accordians of computing -entertaining but not for professionals.
And that is why socialist is the best of both worlds. I cannot believe the number of people at his site who ahve never lived under a socialist govt, who keep ranting about how bad it is. Put simply, free markets dont work to the benefit of all (despite the irrational libertarian rantings of salshtards), and this is a classic example. Just so you know socialism is not communism and is very sucessfull in a lot of countries.
You live on a dream world, the "Intel" was faked by the Bush admin, I remember the time well, only the rabid neocons and their sycophants like yourself believed the laughable evidence at the time. I lost count of the number of times I was howled down by the likes of yourself at the time when I pointed out the evidence was plain lies, now you desperately dissemble to try and retain a shred of crediblitiy, but fail. I notice you ignore the fact that your own Scott Ritter, head of the UN inspectors said clearly at the time that there were no WMD. You sir are an idiot.
Errrmm. no you did not obliterate anything, you may have deluded yourself as to that but I see no evidence (Citation?), other than the word of a person who, by their own writing is either stupid or gullible
Multiple massacres in Viet Nam and IRAQ mean anything to you? Name another army that regularly loses discipline amongst its soldiers, or has as many friendly fire incidents. Oh and shooting down civilian airliners. If you were at all informed you would know the appalling record the US army has for killing civilians and allies. Your naivety is astonishing.
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Well aware of what happened at Waco and yes it is a good thing. Their parents are to blame for being stupid enough to hang around such maniacs, not the government for enforcing the law. As I recollect there was a fire lit by the davidians that caused most of the deaths so obviously its them not the govt to blame. Obvious at least to those who are not gun crazed morons.
Yes overall murder rate down considerably.
No, we dont have uncontrolled imigration here, but from what I read the US has huge ammounts of illegal immigrants,on that basis that equation of yours simply doesnt add up!
Well Waco was a good thing, hopefully it taught some stupid gun nuts there are limits. The very thought of someone like you owning a gun is scary! W
We got rid of nearly all guns a few years ago here and it has been a great improvement for our society. Since there has not been one mass killing and gun related murder has reduced considerably.
But I know from expeience that people with your views are intolerant and just dont let facts get in the way of uninformed opinion.
You dont have any idea what you are talking about do you. I have all those benefits here in Australia,the maximum tax rate is 35%. I pay 15% on my current income, of that 1.5% provides health care for everyone.
We have a decent social welfare system too. What libertarians love to ignore is the simple fact is the more support you give the disadvantaged the less crime you have, so the less policing is needed so less taxes. Grown up countries have known this for years.
So you see I am already there, I imagine you had terrible trouble sharing your toys when you were a child.
Funnily enough we dont have uncontrolled migration here, but it seems the US does(Mexico anyone).
If you stop making up "facts" (60-90% had me ROFL), and awaken to the reality that you do not live in a civilised country, though by your post that is probably a bonus for civilised countries.
Sonce when has Australia been part of Europe?
Libertarians are juvenilles who hever grew out of Henlein books.
Still I suppose I should be sympathetic to victims of the education system in the US.
Just a guess but they probably dont automatically support everything Israel does, so in the eyes of some have a horrible record. How dare they believe palestinians should have human rights?
As an overseas observer of US politices have been waiting for the republican dirt campaign to start, and your the number one cheerleader by the looks.
My non partisan (I dont live in the US)take on the available evidence is there is no substance to it, just another smear campaign, in desperation at the fact losing the election is inevitable.
And by the way, you are a fucking moron.
How incredibly typical, you have no idea of life in the civilised world do you? Your only answer is "Have a gun and protect yourself". If you are confronted by someone with more firepower than you, I guess you just let them kill you rather than call the police then? given that you say you owuld just lie down and die.
Ooh yeh, gun ownership is much more important then health care.
The thing about you libertarian types is you are self centred assholes.
Ironic how a counrty that is afraid of joining the International criminal court because of its many illegal acts (What other reason could therer be?), expects to apply their law to the citizens of other countries for offences commited outside their borders.
It has been obvious for quite some time that the US is not part of the civilised world.
Civilised countries have universal health care and a unlimited social security system.
Funny , mod up
Troll? Yes Brett yes you are.
Yep, thats why I said *old* joke.... applies to the older g3/g4 macs
Round corners reminds me of the old joke;
Q;Why do they make macs so big?
A: So mac users cant put them up their asses.
Q: Why do macs have round corners?
A: Just in case they manage the above!
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More utter bullshit.
Firstly, the electricity price rise in SA occoured before 2006-2007. Privitisation has been a disaster in every area of public enterprise in Australia, leading to large price rises and a reduction in service quality. Only a fool would believe otherwise, and surveys reapeatedly show that the general public agrees!
As for your health care claim, you neatly ignore how many people die in waiting rooms in the US for lack of treatment on a regular basis, not to mention the many who cannot afford life saving medication. Seen sicko have you?
Picking one isolated example is not making a case. At least my anecdote was from personal experience, on many times I have used the publice health system over 25 years, sorry but one case from a newspaper hardly counters 25 years of good health service for me.
I note you did not deny your political allegience.
When I was a telephone tech, we released 70 trained techs into the market every year in SA alone, wonder why now there is a skillsshortage-its because profit driven private companies are so incredibly short sighted, and have trained no-one, and now there is a skill shortage precisely because of the private system you so love!This will be a huge problem in upcoming years as the generation trained retires with no-one to replace them.
My idea of service ( And most thoughful peoples) is what we had, prompt good service, REAl people in Australia answering phone enquiries, need I go on? As all the privitised companies charge similar fees your argument is simply specious.
You made no case for any benefit from the privitisation of public utilities, just excuses and generalisations which are simply false.
Regardless of whether there were all those extra services they still used the same copper wire lines that are used now, and this was the case before most of these new services existed.
You realy have no idea what you are talking about on this subject do you? And by the way its anecdote (Not anocdote).
The only winners from privitisation are the shareholdres of the private companies who get a wind fall. Like I said take your head out of your ass and look around you, dont believe reports that are designed to lead to more profits for the rich.
Ah just the sort of dummy spitting rant one expects from a rabid mac fanboy.
I saw it written aliens had invaded the earth in four different newspaper articles so that must be true by your reasoning! I see no mention of belief, just no suspension of disbelief, a neccesity for those who "believe"in a "god".
Great post, you said it all man! I am sick to death of armchair experts who think they know more than the experts in the climate field, for some reason there is a minority of geeks who push the denial barrow,
using selective quoting, irrelevant "facts"and then when that fails, accusing climate scientists of corruption. Morons would be generous.
I am in Australia too and I call bullshit. My electricity bill went up 30% upon privtisation, I frankly have seen NO benefits. I also have had excellent service from public healthcare. Which nbranch of the liberal party do you belong to by the way? Your's is the partisan rant full of disinformation, I laughed out loud at the higher level of service, you muct be joking. When I was a telephone tech in the 70's we repaired 90% of faults within 24 hours, even in the country.under your wonderful privitisation it now takes up to 5 days in the city and 14 days in the country. Explain again these so called improvemnets of service, or take your head out of your behind and have a look around!
How about the surveys that showed 75% of the worlds population didnt believe the US WMD claims? Google it youself if you want the facts. One person was the US head of the inspectors Scott Ritter, do you live in a clue free zone or do you just ignore what you dont like and go LALALA? There were lots of people who did not believe the claims at the time, but they were in civilised countries, you wouldnt understand.
The 2 people I know who have iphones are having the things crash at least once a day, good enough reason for me to stick with my WM smartphone for a long time. As usual, an overpriced, lited usability fashion accesory from apple.
Apple products, the piano accordians of computing -entertaining but not for professionals.
Would you please stop your pathetic rantings about twitter, no one gives a flying fuck.
And that is why socialist is the best of both worlds.
I cannot believe the number of people at his site who ahve never lived under a socialist govt, who keep ranting about how bad it is. Put simply, free markets dont work to the benefit of all (despite the irrational libertarian rantings of salshtards), and this is a classic example. Just so you know socialism is not communism and is very sucessfull in a lot of countries.
You live on a dream world, the "Intel"
was faked by the Bush admin, I remember the time well, only the rabid neocons and their sycophants like yourself believed the laughable evidence at the time. I lost count of the number of times I was howled down by the likes of yourself at the time when I pointed out the evidence was plain lies, now you desperately dissemble to try and retain a shred of crediblitiy, but fail.
I notice you ignore the fact that your own Scott Ritter, head of the UN inspectors said clearly at the time that there were no WMD. You sir are an idiot.
Errrmm. no you did not obliterate anything, you may have deluded yourself as to that but I see no evidence (Citation?), other than the word of a person who, by their own writing is either stupid or gullible
Multiple massacres in Viet Nam and IRAQ mean anything to you? Name another army that regularly loses discipline amongst its soldiers, or has as many friendly fire incidents. Oh and shooting down civilian airliners. If you were at all informed you would know the appalling record the US army has for killing civilians and allies. Your naivety is astonishing.